The Helix Moment: A Meta-Guide to Thinking, Designing, and Leading in the Co-Intelligence Age
As the book launch of The Helix Moment comes closer, I will take the next four weeks to go deeper into the book, the GPT and share what this is all about
In today’s world, traditional strategies often expire the moment they’re written. You’ve seen it: a perfect offsite plan, teams aligned, only for reality to move faster, messier, and more unpredictably than expected. Static strategies can’t keep pace.
The Helix Moment tackles this head-on. It reframes strategy from rigid plan to living rhythm—something that learns, adapts, and evolves. It’s about blending structure with sensing, intelligence with intuition, planning with vibing. And it’s powered by co-intelligence: humans and AI working in rhythm.
The Rhythms: Lines, Loops, and Vibes (LLV)
At the heart of the book is a rhythmic way of seeing knowledge and action:
▲ Lines – Clarity and structure. Proven patterns and frameworks that scale.
● Loops – Iteration and adaptation. Learning by doing, refining by reflecting.
〰 Vibes – Speculation and emergence. Stretching into the unknown, exploring what’s next.
The Helix moves across these rhythms: from what we know (Lines), to how we learn (Loops), to what we can imagine (Vibes). And back again when things fall out of sync.
The Helix Model: Strategy as a Living System
Like DNA’s double helix, the model has two entwined strands—Strategy and Design—moving through an AI-rich environment.
Strategy gives direction.
Design explores and makes.
AI is the ambient field where co-intelligence happens.
Lines bring structure, Loops enable adaptation, Vibes open emergence. Together, they create systems that are alive and evolving.
The Strategy Strand: The Seven Faces of Strategic Dysfunction
Every organisation struggles with recurring breakdowns. In The Helix Moment, these are framed as Seven Faces of Strategic Dysfunction. Each face is a rhythm mismatch—stuck in the wrong mode for the challenge.
The lesson: strategy fails not from lack of intelligence but from rhythm misalignment. Diagnose the rhythm gap, and dysfunction becomes opportunity.
The Design Strand: The 5Ps of Loop Design
The second strand—Design—operationalises strategy through the 5Ps of Loop Design. It’s an AI-age upgrade of design thinking, shifting from products to living systems:
Perceive (〰 Vibes) – Sense deeply: humans bring context, AI brings pattern recognition.
Perform (▲ Lines) – Act with intention: human judgment directs, AI scales execution.
Portfolio (● Loops) – Build options: human boundaries + AI’s parallel exploration.
Pause/Promote (Loops + Vibes) – Curate what matters: humans discern resonance, AI tests outcomes.
Progress (Lines + Loops) – Create learning systems: humans give meaning, AI captures knowledge.
The 5Ps aren’t sequential—they’re a looped operating system that tells you when and how to use the right tool.
Human + AI: The Collaboration Rhythm
AI in The Helix Moment isn’t just a tool—it’s the environment. Co-intelligence works best with a simple cycle:
Intention – You set the goal.
Exploration – AI generates options.
Co-Evaluation – You and AI review together.
Action – Decide and move forward.
This rhythm builds trust. The human stays in control, AI amplifies. Together they create outcomes neither could alone.
The Multi-Rhythm Organisation
The book culminates in a vision of organisations as orchestras of rhythm. Finance holds Lines for predictability. Innovation runs Loops for discovery. CX senses Vibes at the edges.
The future isn’t uniformity—it’s coordination of difference. Tensions between functions become bridges. Ambiguity becomes possibility. Strategy, design, and AI converge into living rhythm.
The Helix Moment
The Helix is more than a model. It’s a mindset for leading in the Co-Intelligence Age: sensing rhythms, diagnosing dysfunctions, and designing loops.
It doesn’t replace your tools. It shows you how to use them—together, in rhythm, alive.
For deeper application, explore the companion GPT at thehelixmoment.com.